Tormented by My Bewitching Stepmother, I Turn the Tables, and the Empress Begs Me to Take the Throne

Also known as: The Most Powerful Minister

[Ancient-Era Power Fantasy] [Powerful Enough to Dominate the Court] [Fierce War Action] [Pure Wish Fulfillment] [Ruthless and Decisive] [The Strongest General]

Gao Zhan, the second son of the Loyal and Brave Marquis Gao Hong, spends his days carousing or chasing women.

His father dislikes him, his stepmother ignores him, and in the Gao family he’s always been as inconspicuous as a nobody.

But no one knows that Gao Zhan acts this way to disguise and protect himself.

The old marquis is loyal and brave, but the corrupt court has no place for him. His beautiful stepmother, Yin Manli, had long since thrown in her lot with the powerful minister.

Sure enough, the old marquis is ambushed and dies for his country while leading an expedition against the empire’s enemies.

His beautiful stepmother immediately joins forces with the powerful minister to seize the Gao family’s fortune. The slaughter begins, but no one pays any attention to Gao the Second, the family’s invisible nobody.

After escaping to the northern frontier, Gao Zhan drops his disguise and becomes a completely different man. With a rallying cry, he assembles an army and wipes out the foreign invaders in a single battle. Then he leads his troops south, driving straight into the imperial capital. Still in his military uniform, he marches directly before the empress. Thus begins his rise as a powerful minister, controlling the empress, suppressing rebellions, and crushing the warlords.

The empress is nearly in tears!

Divine King, please just depose me and take the throne! I’m willing to be your empress, no, your concubine will do!